From owner-freebsd-security Thu Jan 25 03:29:19 1996 Return-Path: owner-security Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id DAA17978 for security-outgoing; Thu, 25 Jan 1996 03:29:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from skiddaw.elsevier.co.uk (skiddaw.elsevier.co.uk [193.131.222.60]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id DAA17969 for ; Thu, 25 Jan 1996 03:29:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from snowdon.elsevier.co.uk (snowdon.elsevier.co.uk [193.131.197.164]) by skiddaw.elsevier.co.uk (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id LAA02697 for ; Thu, 25 Jan 1996 11:27:22 GMT Received: from cadair.elsevier.co.uk (actually host cadair) by snowdon with SMTP (PP); Thu, 25 Jan 1996 11:27:31 +0000 Received: (from dpr@localhost) by cadair.elsevier.co.uk (8.6.12/8.6.12) id LAA22260; Thu, 25 Jan 1996 11:27:33 GMT From: Paul Richards Message-Id: <199601251127.LAA22260@cadair.elsevier.co.uk> Subject: Re: Ownership of files/tcp_wrappers port To: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith) Date: Thu, 25 Jan 1996 11:27:32 +0000 (GMT) Cc: security@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199601250102.LAA28536@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from "Michael Smith" at Jan 25, 96 11:32:13 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-security@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In reply to Michael Smith who said > > Paul Richards stands accused of saying: > > > > Bin has no shell. (See below). Few or no binaries are ever setuid bin. > > > > Umm, bin does have a shell > > > > bin:*:3:7:Binaries Commands and Source,,,:/:/bin/sh > > Bin does _not_ have a shell. I had finished a 2.1 install a few minutes > before I wrote that message, and I checked my facts. If your bin has > a shell, it's either because you gave it one, or because you've > upgraded from a previous version. > Hmm, I certainly didn't add it and I was a little surprised to find it. Did we fix this post 2.0.5 since that's what the box started off as. -- Paul Richards. Originative Solutions Ltd. Internet: paul@netcraft.co.uk, http://www.netcraft.co.uk Phone: 0370 462071 (Mobile), +44 1225 447500 (work)